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Meta’s $100M hiring blitz, €600M for Europe’s defense AI, India’s 13-language agentic assistant
Marco Fazio
June 24, 2025
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◆ Latestly AI launches the 30-Day AI Business Challenge
◆ French founder hits €10K/month with AI home-staging tool
◆ Meta kicks off $100M+ AI hiring blitz
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1. IACrea – €10K Monthly Revenue (Medium)
Founder: Pauline (France)
What it does: SaaS tool for real-estate pros that transforms property photos—furniture staging, decor overhaul, short animations—in seconds.
Growth: Bootstrapped alongside a full-time job at IBM, IACrea reached €10K/month within 18 months. Now Pauline has 25K+ followers across social platforms.
2. Helper-AI – $3.5K in 2 Months (Easy)
Founder: Prince (India)
What it does: A Chrome extension that adds GPT‑4 support to any webpage via a “help” command—no extra tabs required.
Growth: Solo-built after 2 months of learning JavaScript, sold the source code on Gumroad for $29 per copy. Earned $3.5K+ in just 2 months.
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Founders: Andrew & Michael (California)
What it does: Offers multiple AI tools—face swaps, character art, voice modulator—under one umbrella.
Growth: Launched in December 2023, hit $10K MRR and 150K users by April 2024, spending less than $500 on marketing.
Global Weekly AI News (24 June)
🇺🇸 United States & Canada
Meta kicks off a $100M+ recruiting blitz to build an AI superteam, boosting its investment in Scale AI to $14B.
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab raises $2B seed, valuing the company at $10B.
🇮🇳 India
Ola Krutrim launches Kruti, an agentic AI that supports 13 Indian languages, capable of booking taxis, managing workflows, and more.
Investor Ganesh K calls agentic AI the next frontier, with startups emerging from tier-2 cities like Nagpur.
🇪🇺 Europe
Munich’s defence AI firm Helsing raises €600M, valuing it at €12B and expanding into aerial and underwater drone systems.
Apple is in internal talks to integrate Perplexity AI into Safari, offering built-in AI web search capabilities.
🌍 Africa
Rwanda launches AI Safety Lab, backed by Google and the African Union, focused on misinformation, ethics, and robustness.
Kenyan AI startups raise $120M+ in Q2, especially in fintech and healthtech.
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This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | Funding | Focus | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
Cluely | $15M (Seed) | AI-interview “assistant” for engineers | Andreessen Horowitz |
Pano AI | $44M (Series B) | Early wildfire detection via AI cameras | Giant Ventures, Initialized Capital |
Repello AI | $1.2M (Seed) | AI-driven cybersecurity platform | Pi Ventures, Venture Highway |
Thinking Machines | $2B (Seed) | AGI-focused startup by ex-OpenAI CTO | a16z |
Helsing | €600M (Series C) | Defence AI hardware & software | Prima Materia, Spotify’s Ek |
Top 10 AI Unicorns – This Week’s Moves
Rank | Company | Valuation | Update |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenAI | $300B | Working with PwC on GPT-5 enterprise integrations |
2 | Anthropic | $61.5B | No major moves |
3 | Databricks | $62B | Acquired Lilac for real-time agents |
4 | Hugging Face | $4.5B | Launches Transformers.js |
5 | Scale AI | $18B | Investing billions from Meta partnership |
6 | Anduril | $28B | New $1B drone contract |
7 | Inflection AI | $4B | Suleyman moves to Google DeepMind |
8 | Cohere | $5.5B | Releases enterprise fine-tuning API |
9 | Adept AI | $1B | Holding steady |
10 | Synthesia | $2.1B | Expands multilingual dubbing |
Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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